Iceweasel not running might be something to do with having both Iceweasel and Firefox installed.

My pull down menu error is something I have had in the past. The solution was to do with window themes or something odd, but I don't remember. My system is an updated Wheezy install with the Mint repos added, so I guess I might have some Debian package in place of a Mint one. Although I think that unlikely. I am a dedicated Gnome Shell user anyway, I just play with Cinnamon every now and then so I will just wait for 1.4.1

mockturtl wrote:I had a little trouble upgrading to the official 1.4.0-lmde1 package. Kept crashing on startup. I fixed it by cleaning out all cinnamon references from the build process (find /usr/local -name cinnamon*). Tracking down the error messages, gsettings was giving precedence to an old local version of the schema (/usr/local/share/glib-2.0) missing some new keys needed by 1.4. Got rid of that directory, and everything runs smoothly.

Seems like the same problem ZZ encountered in the 1.3 upgrade. I believe we should have been running configure with prefix=/usr all this time.

no idea how i missed this yesterday does this mean that i can still rescue that cinnamon?

mockturtl wrote:I had a little trouble upgrading to the official 1.4.0-lmde1 package. Kept crashing on startup. I fixed it by cleaning out all cinnamon references from the build process (find /usr/local -name cinnamon*). Tracking down the error messages, gsettings was giving precedence to an old local version of the schema (/usr/local/share/glib-2.0) missing some new keys needed by 1.4. Got rid of that directory, and everything runs smoothly.

Seems like the same problem ZZ encountered in the 1.3 upgrade. I believe we should have been running configure with prefix=/usr all this time.

no idea how i missed this yesterday does this mean that i can still rescue that cinnamon?

I have had a problem from the start with cinnamon starting from the log on screen, I was getting the "Oh No! Something has gone wrong screen" when trying to log on using cinnamon, I was having to log on to gnome shell then alt F2 and cinnamon --replace to use cinnamon. This mail got me looking at the start up programs were I found gnome shell listed with a tick. I have no idea why this would be there. But unticking it and now cinnamon starts properly from the log on screen.

There is a strange behaviour of Cinnamon after 1.4-lmde1 update.Situation: Cinnamon window list applet is active and there are more than 5 windows opened.Result: "Cinnamon Menu" applet button and "Panel launchers" applet buttons shrink There are three dots instead of "Menu". More windows open, applet buttons shrink to nothing (but I still can click somewhere in the screen corner and menu opens).

Seems like a bug, applet buttons should not shrink at all like system tray icons do.

In Debian Experimental the latest code is probably able to run. Ubuntu 12.04 is also not 100% up-to-date with upstream Gnome 3.4. We don't need everything to be coloured dark green on that page for cinnamon to run.

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